Baby: As I type this at my desk, baby just stopped having hiccups. He really doesn't get them often, but it is kind of cute when it does happen. I am starting to feel bad for my little man. He is growing so big and strong these days, that even when he is not moving, if he is positioned just so, I can feel exactly where his body is. And let me tell you, the poor kid is running out of room. He moves almost constantly. His pattern, I have learned, is about 4 days of insane movement- like my belly takes on new form from his movements- and then a couple days of a more subtle movement. I guess he gets tired from rearranging his house and needs a rest. He likes to wake up every morning when I do with a good morning dance. He seems to have found a spot for his bum up in my ribs. No swift kicks really (only an occasional punch) to the rib - he reserves the hard ones for other places- but every time he tries to get comfy he pushes his bum high up into my right ribs and chills there for a while. The weekend of my San Diego baby shower I was quite uncomfortable. He was moving like a crazy dude and new sensations of pressure and discomfort came. I am pretty sure he flipped head down that weekend. Exciting! Annnddd.... the hiccups are back.. I think.
Mommy: I feel like a whale. Big water retaining wale. With amazing hair. All in all, discomfort has settled in. Sitting is uncomfortable, getting up from sitting is uncomfortable, laying down has become quite uncomfortable.. you get the pattern. I am also EXHAUSTED, even more than I remember being in the first trimester. Swelling of the feet happens at random, and my rings don't fit anymore. I am HUGE. Like, we are taking pregnancy classes, and on Saturday as we all introduced ourselves, the woman sitting next to me, 5 weeks ahead of me, with TWINS, was just about the same size as I am. In a three week course we are taking... I am the biggest one. Yickes- talk about feeling enormous. However, I don't remember life not being pregnant anymore, so oddly enough, it is all just kind of my new normal. I love feeling my little boy move. Sometimes he gets me really good and takes my breath away but even those remind me he's in there and doing well. I love it. Sometimes I lay there touching where his little foot is pushing out, or bum pushing out and wonder intensely what he looks like and what that little foot or butt looks like. It blows my mind there is a living human inside of me. I am also completely blown away that it is half Nate's. It is the coolest feeling to make a little human with your spouse and share such a magical event together.
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